At 16, Mary Ann left home to become a nurse at the nearby village of South Hetton, in the home of Edward Potter, a manager at Murton colliery. Their first child Margaret Isabella (Mary Isabella on her baptismal record) was born that November, but she became ill and died in February 1868. A Mr. Aspinwall was supposed to get the job, but the Attorney General, Sir John Duke Coleridge, chose his friend and protg Charles Russell. Mary Ann would also eventually give birth to his child. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. We meet Mary Ann as a loving wife and mother, newly returned to her native North East of England. Investigations into her behaviour soon showed a pattern of deaths. Ward continued to suffer ill health and died on 20 October 1866 after a long illness characterised by paralysis and intestinal problems. She enjoyed crafting, hosting ceramics classes for many years, creating scrapbooks of family memories, and making special cards for every occasion. According to Psychology Today, female serial murderers often have a drive that's pretty distinct from their male counterparts. As with all nursery rhymes passed on primarily by word of mouth, there are variations. In 1843, Mary Ann's widowed mother, Margaret (ne Lonsdale) married George Stott, with whom Mary Ann did not get along. It is believed that he was killed in a railway accident. Insurance had been taken out on his life and the lives of his sons. Her daughter, Clara, 19, was living with Sarah in St Lukes Terrace, Ferryhill. Login to find your connection. Mary Ann was destitute and barely surviving on the streets, but she was bailed out by her friend, Margaret, who introduced the black widow to her brother, Frederick Cotton. She sent her remaining child, Isabella, to live with her mother. He is buried in Cambrai cemetery. Mary Anns first port of call after Charles' death was not the doctors but the insurance office. Someone had either inadvertently or, as some suspect, intentionally miscalculated the drop needed to break her neck and bring death instantaneously. Though he appears to have worked as a skilled laborer who opened new mining shafts, the Robsons were working class. He died in a field hospital on November 4 a week before the armistice. He, however, was engaged to another woman and she left Seaham after Nattrasss wedding. The series also featured Alun Armstrong, Jonas Armstrong and Emma Fielding. Lying in bed with her eyes wide open. William and Mary Ann moved back to North East England where they had, and lost, three more children. There, she discovered that no money would be paid out until a death certificate was issued. c. 1870. With thanks to Vivienne Smith, Durham; Joyce Malcolm, Newton Aycliffe; Alistair Fraser, the Western Front Association; John Dinning and Geoff Wall, the Ferryhill Heritage Centre; Tom Hutchinson, Bishop Auckland; Vi Steventon of Newton Aycliffe; Ian Smyth Herdman of Hartlepool and everybody else who has been in touch. She took him in as a lodger while also starting a relationship with a man she knew as John Quick-Manning. The census revealed that her boys were working underground William was a collier and John was a pony driver. I could be remembering it wrong, though. Cause of death: Hanging, Capital punishment - Mar 24 1873 - Durham, England, Oct 31 1832 - Low Moorsley (now part of Houghton-le-Spring in the City of Sunderland), Michael Robson, Margaret Robson (born Londsale), abella Mowbray, Mary Jane Mowbray, John Robert Mowbray, Margaret Isabella Robinson, George Robinson, Robert Robson Cotton, Mary Jane Mowbray, Circa 1832 - Low Moorsley, Hetton-le-Hole, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom, Mar 24 1873 - Durham Gaol, Durham, County Durham, England, United Kingdom, Frederick Cotton, Charles E Cotton, Robert Cotton, Low Moorsley, Hetton-le-Hole, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom, Deptford, County Durham, England, United Kingdom, Durham Gaol, Durham, County Durham, England, United Kingdom, Durham Gaol, Durham, Durham Unitary Authority, County Durham, England, United Kingdom, Margaret Edith Quick-Manning Fletcher Kell, Birth of Margaret Edith Quick-Manning Fletcher Kell, Durham, Durham Unitary Authority, County Durham , England. Mary Ann subsequently worked as a hospital nurse in nearby Sunderland, and in 1865 she married a patient, George Ward. As per Female Serial Killers, the two were married in 1865, shortly after he was discharged from the hospital. Mary Ann Cotton also had her own nursery rhyme of the same title, sung after her hanging on March 24, 1873. WIKITREE PROTECTS MOST SENSITIVE INFORMATION BUT ONLY TO THE EXTENT STATED IN THE TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICY. mary ann cotton surviving descendants mary ann cotton surviving descendants. Mary Ann's first visit after Charles' death was not to the doctor but the insurance office. inaccuracy or intrusion, then please Cotton took her daughter, Isabella Jane, who had been living with Margaret, with her. MARGARET was born in Durham jail, the daughter of serial poisoner MARY ANN COTTON (nee ROBSON). An army of readers many anonymous, others marshalled by Tim Brown of Ferryhill Local History Society and some relatives have helped put us right. The doctor who attended Charles had kept samples, and they tested positive for arsenic. The so-called fever mimicked the symptoms of arsenic poisoning, a fact which would later prove interesting to investigators. Perhaps that's why Ward fell sick again not too long after the wedding and before they could conceive a child together. The Times correspondent reported on 20 March: "After conviction the wretched woman exhibited strong emotion but this gave place in a few hours to her habitual cold, reserved demeanour and while she harbours a strong conviction that the royal clemency will be extended towards her, she staunchly asserts her innocence of the crime that she has been convicted of." Margaret, her husband, and their baby daughter Clara moved to the United States in 1893, but she then returned to Durham in 1894 as a young widow. As The Northern Echo reports, most believe that this child was probably the eighth of her biological children and one of only a few who would survive an encounter with their mother. The insurance policy Mary Ann had taken out on (the still living) Charles' life still awaited collection. While some claimed that she was Britains first female serial killer, other women had previously been hanged for poisoning multiple people. Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback event. She officially died of hepatitis, though she died just over a week after her daughter came to tend to her. After all of the children had been sent to boarding school in Darlington over the next three years, she returned to her stepfather's home and trained as a dressmaker. However, he died the following year, and Mary Ann reportedly collected money from another insurance policy. An examination of the body revealed arsenic in his stomach, and further exhumations on the bodies of two other Cotton children and Nattrass found traces of the poison. In 1869 Robinson discovered that Mary Ann was stealing from him, and he grew suspicious of her repeated requests that he take out a life insurance policy. She returned to Sunderland and took up employment at the Sunderland Infirmary, House of Recovery for the Cure of Contagious Fever, Dispensary and Humane Society. That man was recorded as "John Quick-Manning," though it's possible that he gave Mary Ann a partially false name. She told Riley that the boy was sickly and added: I wont be troubled long. The couple was married in September 1870, but since Mary Ann had not divorced Robinson, it was a bigamous marriage. That year both Cottons sister and his youngest child died. James Robinson was a shipwright at Pallion in Sunderland, whose wife Hannah had recently died. She was hanged at Durham County Gaol on March 24, 1873, but it was a bungled execution. The defense in the case was handled by Mr. Thomas Campbell Foster. Russell's appointment over Aspinwall led to a question in the House of Commons. According to Mary Ann Cotton, Cotton wed Robinson in 1867. He was also a widower who had lost two of his four children and lived in Northumberland. Arsenic, however, was more subtle. Mary Ann received a life-insurance payment of 5 10s 6d for Isabella. Instead, Cotton dropped only two feet and proceeded to choke, still alive. William and Mary Ann moved back to North East England, where William worked as a fireman aboard a steam vessel sailing out of Sunderland, then as a colliery foreman. After she was finally apprehended in 1872, some estimated that she may have killed as many as 21 people, according to Britannica. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. Some substances, like cyanide and strychnine, were also readily available but produced obvious results. As she was sentenced to hang, the second hearing fizzled out. The insurance policy Mary Ann had taken out on Charles' life still awaited collection. It is said that the prisoner, who is comparatively a young woman, has. Once again, Mary Ann collected insurance money from her husband's death. William and John went off to fight. Riley, who also served as West Auckland's assistant coroner, said she needed to accompany him. Mary Anns last remaining daughter, Isabella, also succumbed to gastric fever and Mary Ann received 5 10s 6d in insurance money. She was believed to have murdered up to 21 people, mainly by arsenic poisoning. Insurance had been effected on his life and those of his sons. It appears that, sometime around the birth, he fled town, with some reports indicating that he went so far as to leave the country, while others claim that he reconciled with his wife and lived a relatively quiet existence thereafter. Mary Ann Cotton's now-inevitable trial was delayed, as it soon became clear to officials that she was pregnant. James Robinson was a shipwright at Pallion, Sunderland, whose wife, Hannah, had recently died. She was found guilty and sentenced to die. Comments have been closed on this article. Things seemed to grow worse for the family after Mowbray took out life insurance policies on himself and their three remaining children. Mary Ann Robson was born on Halloween 1832 in Low Moorsley in County Durham. All three children were buried in the last two weeks of April 1867. The body of the stepson was examined and found to contain arsenic. The date is March 24th, 1873. Soon enough, Margaret died of a mysterious gastrointestinal ailment, allowing Mary Ann to get closer to Frederick. In 1871, the new fivesome moved to West Auckland: Mary Ann, Frederick Cotton, his sons Frederick Junior and Charles Edward, and the new baby, Robert Robson. A short time later, she married William Mowbray in an 1852 ceremony. As the miner's cottage they inhabited was tied to Michael's job, the widow and children would have been evicted. Mary Ann's downfall came when a parish official, Thomas Riley, asked her to help nurse a woman who was ill with smallpox. They married in September 1870, and Frederick died in December 1871 from the ever-present "gastric fever." Depiction of Mary Ann Cotton. Riley, who also served as West Auckland's assistant coroner, said she would have to accompany him. She lies in bed with her eyes. There appears to be no trace of John Quick-Manning in the records of The West Auckland Brewery or The National Archives at Kew. Yet, she wasn't alone. An examination ultimately revealed the presence of arsenic in his stomach. Up in the air Sellin black puddens a penny a pair. But in late March 1870 Margaret died from an undetermined stomach ailment, leaving Mary Ann to console the grieving Frederick Sr. At some point William took out a life insurance policy that covered both him and their three surviving children; the others had died from gastric fever, a common ailment that had symptoms similar to arsenic poisoning. Although she began a relationship with a man named Joseph Nattrass, she moved once again, this time to Sunderland, after another one of her children died from gastric fever. Some three minutes passed before she finally died. Corrections? Editors' Code of Practice. Cotton and Mary Ann were bigamously married on 17 September 1870 at St Andrew's, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and their son Robert was born early in 1871. Plus, it really was everywhere, from the green dye in clothes, to wallpaper, to rat poison. Mary Ann Robson was born on 31 October 1832 at Low Moorsley (now part of Houghton-le-Spring in the City of Sunderland) and baptised at St Mary's, West Rainton on 11 November. Her funeral service will be at 10:00 . She persuaded him to move his family closer, and in December 1871, Cotton died of gastric fever. [1] Baptised at St Mary's, West Rainton on 11 November 1832. Perhaps Robinson didnt link Mary Ann with the numerous deaths in the family, but he certainly became suspicious when she became overly insistent that he insure his life. Both of Mary Ann Cottons grandsons have their names engraved on Ferryhill War Memorial. Although her mother started getting better, she also began to complain of stomach pains. Mary Ann Cotton, ne Mary Ann Robson, also known as Mary Ann Mowbray, Mary Ann Ward, and Mary Ann Robinson, (born October 31?, 1832, Low Moorsley, Durham county, Englanddied March 24, 1873, Durham county), British nurse and housekeeper who was believed to be Britains most prolific female serial killer. All three children had been subjects of small life insurance policies. The executioner reportedly had to push down on her shoulders to speed up the process, which took three minutes to finally kill her. Margaret had acted as substitute mother for the remaining children, Frederick Jr. and Charles. Sing, sing, oh, what can I sing, Mary Ann Cotton is tied up with string. - Mary Ann Cotton, a widow, is in custody at West Auckland, charged with having poisoned her stepson, aged eight years. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused. When Cotton gave birth to her and Robinson's child, her infant daughter quickly died of "convulsions." However, the first hearing led to Mary Ann's conviction for the death of Charles in March of that year. Sister of Robert Robson, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Cotton. Her father's body was delivered to her mother in a sack bearing the stamp 'Property of the South Hetton Coal Company'. Shortly after her demise, according to The Invention of Murder, Cotton's exploits were used by the Victorians in all manner or moralistic and lurid attractions. Doctor William Byers Kilburn, who had attended Charles, had kept samples, and tests showed they contained arsenic. The mother had to take care of three children, while suffering with the depression owing to her husband's death. Cotton asked the man to circulate a petition in yet another attempt to save her, which did happen, yet it had no real effect on her ultimate fate. That is not to say she was entirely innocent, although it does seem very unlikely that she murdered her own mother, who died of hepatitis. This week, I'll delve into her psychology. Perhaps most tellingly, her children lived to tell the tale. Many seem to act out their crimes in stealthier ways, often using poison and frequently for attention, sympathy, financial security, or some combination of the above. Mary Ann's daughter Isabella, from the marriage to William Mowbray, was brought back to the Robinson household and soon developed bad stomach pains and died; so did another two of Robinson's children. She named her Margaret Edith Quick-Manning Cotton, partially to target her latest lover as the father of the child. He died in 1872 from gastric fever soon after amending his will in Mary Anns favor. She grew a dislike of children while working as a housemaid, and this didn't stop once she had children of her own. Regardless of her counterarguments, Mary Ann was still to die. She came back home three years later, taking up work as a dressmaker. For women of the working class, the sudden death of a husband could easily throw them into devastating poverty with little way out. By the middle of the nineteenth century, there was almost an epidemic of poisoning so who knows how many murders were committed. Her brother Robert was born in 1835. The trap door wasnt placed high enough to break her neck. According to the Journal of Social History, working class mothers were especially likely to see their own children sicken and die, even if they weren't intentionally causing the illnesses. The word was that she had killed anything up to 21 of her husbands, lovers, children and stepchildren, and even her own mother making her Britains most prolific mass murderer until Harold Shipman. Nattrass soon followed, though not before he put Mary Ann down as a beneficiary in his will. That's likely why Cotton's mother quickly remarried, in order to keep her family away from the horrifying poverty and harsh conditions of Victorian workhouses. Soon after Mowbray's death, Mary Ann moved to Seaham Harbour, County Durham, where she struck up a relationship with Joseph Nattrass. Mary's mother remarried a few years later, but Mary hated her stepfather. Mary Ann Cotton was charged with the murder of Charles Edward Cotton, and as she awaited trial in Durham Prison, she gave birth to her 13th and last child, Margaret Edith Quick-Manning Cotton, in January 1873. For weeks they have been During this time, her 3-year-old daughter, the second Margaret Jane, died of typhus fever, leaving her with one child of up to nine she had borne. Her father died eight years later in a mining accident. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Ann-Cotton, Hartlepool History Team - Biography of Mary Ann Cotton. It may well be that the name of the excise man was in fact Richard Quick Mann. She officially died of hepatitis, though she died just over a week after her daughter came to tend to her. By the time Nattrass was dead, Mary Ann had poisoned Robert, her infant son with Cotton, and Frederick Jr., her stepson. In 2015 ITV filmed a two-part television drama, Dark Angel,[5] starring Joanne Froggatt as Cotton. Baby Margaret spent some time with her biological mother in the jail cell, before she was eventually given to her adoptive parents, William and Sarah Edwards, aged about 10 weeks old. She also began a relationship with Joseph Nattrass, History Collection reports, though the affair never resolved into marriage. After her marriage to Robinson crumbled, Cotton was introduced to Frederick Cotton by his sister, Margaret. 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The only birth recorded was that of their daughter Margaret Jane, born at St Germans in 1856. Mary Ann found employment as a nurse, and it was here that she met her next husband, George Ward. Mary Ann Cotton's trial began on 5 March 1873. IMPORTANT PRIVACY NOTICE & DISCLAIMER: YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO USE CAUTION WHEN DISTRIBUTING PRIVATE INFORMATION. Connolly, Martin. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. It is believed that she ki**ed three of her husbands so that she could collect their life insurance policies and may . . He threw her out. They married in Monkwearmouth on 28 August 1865. Richard Quick Mann was a custom and excise man specialising in breweries and has been found in the records and this may indeed be the real name of Mary Ann Cotton's alleged lover. On March 24, 1873, Mary Ann was hanged in a bungled execution. The Robson family moved to the village of Murton in Durham when Mary Ann was eight, but tragedy struck in February 1842. Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Within a few days, Charles Edward had died, and when Riley found out, he urged the doctor to avoid writing the death certificate until the cause of death was fully investigated. Then the local newspapers latched on to the story and discovered Mary Ann had moved around northern England and lost three husbands, a lover, a friend, her mother, and a dozen children, all of whom had died of stomach fevers. The doctor testified that there was no other powder on the same shelf in the chemist's shop as the arsenic, only liquid; the chemist himself claimed that there were other powders. She was only ever convicted for the murder of one, though it led to her execution by hanging in 1873. 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